WESTMINSTER – An Orange County jury has convicted a man of raping an intoxicated Australian tourist and dumping her in an alley behind a Tustin bar, according to the District Attorney's Office.

Akeem Jelani Johnson, 28, Tustin, was found guilty Friday of one felony count of rape and faces a maximum sentence of eight years in state prison and mandatory lifetime sex offender registration at his sentencing April 20 at the West Justice Center in Westminster, the district attorney said in a news release.

In an impact statement to the court Monday, the victim said, in part, according to the release:

"My confident nature has taken a beating. I become anxious around male strangers. ... This whole ordeal has changed me for life. I will never be the same person I was before Thanksgiving 2010. ... Fortunately for me that night, something sent a Good Samaritan outside from doing his laundry, and he had a conscience that told him what he was witnessing was not right and he should do something about it."

Late on Nov. 25, 2010, Johnson met the 47-year-old victim for the first time at Godfather's bar in Tustin. She was visiting family in Orange County from Australia and was visibly intoxicated, the release said.

At midnight, Johnson took the unsteady victim to his sport utility vehicle and raped her in the back seat while she was unable to resist due to intoxication, prosecutors said.

Then he and two of his friends lifted the partially-clothed woman and dumped her on an old, dirty mattress in an alley near the bar and fled the scene, prosecutors said. A witness observed the victim being carried, called 911 and provided the license plate number for Johnson's car.

Tustin Police Department officers responded and found the victim in the alley. She was unresponsive, incoherent, and unable to stand without assistance due to alcohol intoxication, the release said.

Johnson was arrested later that day based on the license plate number.

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